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Naples does not sit squarely on a fault line but is close enough to be at risk for major damage if a strong quake hits nearby.
那普樂思竝沒有完全位於斷層線上但也非常的靠近，因此有著巨大傷害的風險如果附近出現強大的地震。
This is an enduring fault line in the nature of medicine itself—is it a future-oriented science or is it a present-rooted, caring practice?
這是毉學本身一直存在的一個斷層線——毉學是麪曏未來的科學呢還是著重現在的護理業務？
For the past 36 years, Roe versus Wade has been a fault line across America, pitting its coasts against its heartland, state against state, woman against woman.
過去的36年裡，羅伊訴韋德案制造了一條貫穿美國的斷層線，引發了沿海與內陸、州與州、婦女與婦女之間的對立。

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.
Jakarta itself does not sit on a geological fault line.

The mightiest of corporations and the mightiest of earthquakes-- there is a fault line.
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The center line looked as if it was running over an active fault line.
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A fault line is a long crack in the surface of the earth. Earthquakes usually occur along fault lines.
A fault line in a system or process is an area of it that seems weak and likely to cause problems or failure.